From kdepim-users Fri Mar 30 19:50:57 2007 From: "Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper" Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:50:57 +0000 To: kdepim-users Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Kpilot Ate my Future Message-Id: <200703301550.57889.vR () movingparts ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdepim-users&m=117528417215949 On Thursday 29 March 2007, Staci wrote: > I was so excited, I finally got my palm to sync with the latest version of > kubuntu (6.10), KDE 3.5.4 and kpilot 4.6.0! > > And then I looked at my PIM software and about fainted. > It ate everything except my contacts. > My upcoming events, my work schedule, my family/friend birthdays, my > alarms, everything. > Kontact doesn't see it. > Is there somewhere this stuff might be hidden, or is it really GONE??? > Why??? > > Thanks, > Staci Hi Staci, First off, as a kpilot developer, it pains me to see this kind of e-mail!! So, I really feel bad that you're having problems like this. =:( Let's see if we can work through this, piece at a time... Please make sure you make frequent backups of your local and PDA's databases. I know it sounds like you shouldn't have to, and in an ideal world you wouldn't but when bugs come around and take your data from you (as it looks like they might have here), you know how true this statement is. So... what version of pilot-link are you using? If it's pilot-link 0.12.x in combination with kpilot < 4.9.0, there are unfortunate known data loss problems. The hopeful solution is to upgrade to the latest KDE (3.5.6, which provides kpilot 4.9.0). As for your data... do you have any backups of your palm data? You can look in ~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup// to see if you have AddressDB.pdb, DatebookDB.pdb, ToDoDB.pdb, and MemoDB.pdb. If you do, save those off somewhere safe immediately!!! Also, look in ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/ for std.ics. You might or might not have std.ics~, which may contain a backup of your data. If you have it, save it immediately. Similarly, your contact data will be in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/ and you will hopefully have some backup files in there because kabc keeps its own backup files. So, again, before you try to do anything further, check for those backups and copy them somewhere safe!! Please let me know how else I can help, and again, my sincerest frustration, sadness, and apologies. =:( --  -[ Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper    //  http://movingparts.net ]-  -[ KDE PIM Developer         //  http://www.kde.org  ]-  -[ bash fun -> :(){ :|:&};:  //  Numbers 6:22-26 ]- _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list kdepim-users@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users